Organic carbon mass accumulation rate and its influencing factors in intermountain basin sediments of northwest Pacific Ocean

Li Jidong; Sun Dong; Wang Chunsheng; Yang Juan

doi:10.12284/hyxb2021048

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Apr. 2021

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Li Jidong，Sun Dong，Wang Chunsheng, et al. Organic carbon mass accumulation rate and its influencing factors in intermountain basin sediments of northwest Pacific Ocean[J]. Haiyang Xuebao，2021, 43(4)：122–132 doi: 10.12284/hyxb2021048

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Organic carbon mass accumulation rate and its influencing factors in intermountain basin sediments of northwest Pacific Ocean

doi: 10.12284/hyxb2021048

Li Jidong^1
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Sun Dong^{2, 3, 4},
Wang Chunsheng^{2, 3, 4, 5},
Yang Juan^{1
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School of Ocean Sciences, China University of Geosciences(Beijing), Beijing 100083, China
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Second Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 310012, China
3.
Key Laboratory of Marine Ecosystem Dynamics, Ministry of Natural Resources, Hangzhou 310012, China
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Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Zhuhai), Zhuhai 519080, China
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School of Oceanography, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200030, China

Received Date: 2020-07-17
Rev Recd Date: 2020-11-30

Available Online: 2021-02-25

Publish Date: 2021-04-01

Abstract

Abstract

Carbon sinking is one of the important ecological services of ocean ecosystems, which acts as a driving force for energy flow and material cycle. Based on the 48th China scientific cruise in the northwest Pacific Ocean, the investigation on the sedimentary environment of intermountain basin was carried out regarding to the characteristics and influencing factors of total organic carbon mass accumulation rate (F_orgc). The results show that the F_orgc in the northwestern Pacific Ocean basin ranges from 1.41 g/(m²·ka) to 1.73 g/(m²·ka), with an average of 1.60 g/(m²·ka). As a whole, about 0.003 1% of the region’s net primary productivity is buried in sediments annually. Both F_orgc and net primary productivity transfer efficiency are lower in the northwestern Pacific intermountain basin in comparison with those in the eastern Pacific Ocean and equatorial Pacific Ocean. Many environmental factors influenced the F_orgc in this area, induding biogeochemical factors in the water column and sediments, such as net primary productivity, sediment mass accumulation rate, organic carbon content, redox potential, and those topographic factors, such as the distance from the nearest seamount and water depth.
- sediments,
- total organic carbon mass accumulation rate,
- net primary productivity,
- transfer efficiency

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